ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,618, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Water quality detection device and cleaning method for sensor thereof" was invented by Tsung-Yu Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan), Hung-Sheng Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Cheng-Da Ko (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chun-Te Chuang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water quality detection device including a detection tank, a sensor, the cleaner and a processor is provided. The sensor is disposed on the detection tank and is configured to sense a to-be-detected liquid within the detection tank. The cleaner is configured to clean the sensor. Th...